Vladislav Karklin was born in Leningrad in 1971. He began
to study music as a clarinettist and graduated with distinction from
the St Petersburg Conservatoire, clarinet class of Professor Adil
Fyodorov. Throughout his studies at the conservatoire he attended
the symphony music conducting class of Professor Ilya Musin, and
in 2000 he trained under Professor Alexander Titov. In 1997 Vladislav
Karklin completed his postgraduate studies with distinction
at the Robert Schumann Musikhochschule in Dusseldorf (clarinet
class of Professor Ernst Kinderman), and in 2002 he graduated in piano
and symphony music conducting (classes of Professors Wolfgang Trommer and Lutz
Herbig).

Vladislav Karklin began his professional career as a clarinettist,
appearing with the Peterhof Orchestra before moving to the St
Petersburg Chamber Opera Company and subsequently the Academic Symphony
Orchestra of the St Petersburg Philharmonic.

From 2001-2005 he worked as a conductor at the Opernhaus
Wuppertal in Germany. Subsequently, from 2005 to 2009 he was Deputy
Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Stadttheater
in Passau (Germany), from 2009 to 2011 he was Guest Conductor of
the St Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra and, from 2010
to 2013 he was a conductor at the Staatstheater Darmstadt
(Germany).

From 2007 Vladislav Karklin was Guest Conductor of the Greater Anderson
Musical Arts Consortium (USA), from 2009 he was a conductor
at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St Petersburg, since 2011 he has
been a Permanent Guest Conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre and
the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre and since 2013 he has been
a Guest Conductor at the Helikon Opera in Moscow.